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  • 352 Koran ii., whose 256th Ayah is the far-famed and sublime Throne-verse which begins Allah! there is no god but He, the Living, the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The Ayah is the "society" newspaper of small stations, and is indispensable.

    Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

  • The mere milk of human kindness explains something, but not enough, and I am inclined to think that the Ayah is the subject of an indiscriminate maternal emotion, which runs where it can find a channel.

    Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

  • Then Eleanor comprehended the cause of the tumult: the Ayah was a Hindoo, and as one of the tenets of their religion is not to eat in vessels that have been used by those who profess a different faith, she had always cooked her little rice messes in the "pots and pans" now so unceremoniously carried off.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • "Ayah," Hosea agreed shamelessly, taking his microcassette recorder out of his shoulder bag and setting it down on the desk.

    Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • "Ayah," Hosea agreed shamelessly, taking his microcassette recorder out of his shoulder bag and setting it down on the desk.

    Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • He calls out "Ayah" and "Boy," so naturally that at first the servants thought it was their master calling them.

    Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various

  • Terrific, let’s blow her up like a balloon! — who gave nothing for his purported origins; and how this enormously fat peasant woman called Ayah — a nursemaid just like your mother, for Christ’s sake! — was herself the victim of colonial oppression.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • His Muslim neighbour got very upset and said to him, "Can you please tell your children not to call you 'Ayah'?"

    Planet Malaysia 2010

  • His Muslim neighbour got very upset and said to him, "Can you please tell your children not to call you 'Ayah'?"

    Planet Malaysia 2010

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